Dorothy Kunhardt

KITTY AND HER mother go to the toy store for her very first doll. Which one does Kitty choose? Not the doll that walks and talks. Kitty chooses a rag doll that can’t do anything, not even sleep. “But she can pretend cry and pretend sleep . . . and she can say anything I want her to say,” says Kitty. And as she walks home with her new doll, she holds it close and pretends that it says, “I love you.”

Although he knows no tricks, Peewee the circus dog is loved by all because he is the smallest dog in the world, but when he grows into a normal-size dog his days under the Big Top may be at an end.